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That’s exactly how the Web was at first. I clearly remember downloading Mosaic in the summer of 1993, a few months after its release. I clicked around for a few minutes, but quickly ran out of content. So I went back to gopherspace, which was rich and endless in comparison.


Anyone have an alternate source? Force.com itself is a tracking domain that I block.


I believe subdomains on force.com are used for support portals by companies using Salesforce for customer contact. I've seen it used by Western Digital and a bunch of software or SaaS companies.


OP is linking to the CBS instructions itself. It's not a news site.


What do you need it for that it actually prevents? I've used this for close to a decade, and it has never broken anything. Sounds like FUD mate.


Ssh and p2p stuff are two examples off the top of my head. For p2p, you lose the ability for peers to initiate a connection with you if you block incoming traffic.


Why not block all incoming connections except on those ports?


That's what you usually do (preferably on your router if you are using one).

But the article says "and check Block all incoming connections". That's my point.


I need it for... incoming connections obviously. P2P applications is the best example.


I second this.


Because security and usability are inherently at odds, and Apple has always erred on the side of usability, until the security downsides are simply to great to ignore. This has been the pattern for every single security improvement in Mac OS X.

If you understand the tradeoffs, you can do a wide variety of things to massively increase the inherent security of your Mac by changing system and app configurations.


One of the great things about using unbound is how easy it is to blacklist entire domains, without having to know the name of each subdomain ahead of time. I've been doing what pihole does for over ten years using pfSense. I'm up to 437,000 fully qualified domain names blocked, and over ten thousand domains blocked outright. It has been years since I've seen an ad.


Yes, it already exists today, and it's built right into Brave.

https://brave.com/publishers/


It's time to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Either internet companies can exert editorial control like this, or they can be free of the consequences of the libel, criminal threats, and intellectual property crimes they are party to. But not both.


Note that they didn't exert any control. It was discussed between colleagues. The email chain contained many warnings not to do this. Ultimately nothing came of it.


The central issue is whether they can exert control They obviously can.


Is that considered conspiracy?


No. Why would it be? At an absolute minimum conspiracy requires some agreement. Which they didn't have here. This also seems to have been an open discussion so there was no secrecy amongst those who did agree.


IANAL, according to Section 1(1) in [1] for UK, the threshold is for two persons to agree to have the law applied to them. It doesn't require all to agree. And from 1(1)(b), it's not necessarily for the conspired act to be carried out under some circumstance.

For U.S. [2], the threshold for conspiracy against the U.S. government is similar or lower. Item (2) "they interfere or obstruct legitimate Government activity" sounds a lot like what the Google employees were doing.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/45/section/1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_the_United_...


This data is meaningless for analysis without exposing the racial breakdown. That South Dakota county is almost certainly nearly all American Indians. The big red patch in the south is very likely largely influenced by lower African American lifespans.


How does that make it meaningless? Yes, certain segments of the population are even more underserved than others, but that’s just more evidence for the fact that we’re doing a crap job of keeping people healthy.


For one thing, it makes the title a bit deceptive. If the variance in lifespan is actually caused by something other than location, then where you live doesn’t actually affect your lifespan.


Because race is genetic and genetic variations lead to wildly disparate "outcomes." Your zip code is one of the weakest influences on your health and lifespan, relative to other scientifically proven factors.


4 of the top 5 counties are above 80% Native American. The remaining one is mostly prison inmates.

None of the top 5 has any real correlation to a geographic area per se.

Thus "Depending on Where You Live" isn't really a great title.


> How does that make it meaningless? Yes, certain segments of the population are even more underserved than others, but that’s just more evidence for the fact that we’re doing a crap job of keeping people healthy.

Because by not breaking out the single largest compounding factor, it's masking the real problem underlying this issue: there's a massive disparity in outcomes for people of different races.


Perhaps poverty, access to healthcare, or education is a bigger factor? Do you have evidence race is the "real problem"?

In Washington state, the counties with the worst mortality are 95% white, with 5% native (Grays Harbor and Okanagan)

(poverty, education, race are of course very correlated)


Race in fact does play a big factor in health disparities. For example, African Americans are at much higher risk for heart health related issues. And when heart disease is the number 1 killer of people of all races.. well that just doesn't bode well for the life expectancy of AA.

And it's not just because minority populations have worse access to healthcare. There are in fact genetic components that predispose different races to different diseases.

Japanese people, Glaucoma. AA, heart disease. White people, Celiac.

Basically there's multiple components: Race, Healthcare access, Poverty, Education, Local Cultural proclivities for: diet, exercise, etc.

https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/26/2/247.full


> Perhaps poverty, access to healthcare, or education is a bigger factor? Do you have evidence race is the "real problem"?

You're asking if I have evidence that the IHS is an absolute disaster, which impacts mortality rates and life expectancy?

Yes, that's a problem that's been very well-documented for the past seventy years.


> The big red patch in the south is very likely largely influenced by lower African American lifespans.

There is certainly a strong correlation[0].

[0]: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur...


>Hate speech is not free speech

There is no such thing as "hate speech." It has no legal or rational construction. Hurt feelings and strenuous objections are no basis for law.


> It has no legal [...] construction

That must be a real conundrum in countries that have laws against it. Presumably clearly defined. I think you're onto some paradox here...

Hate speech is not about hurt feelings. But if that's what you understand from it with almost the entire human knowledge available to you a simple internet search away I'm sure no comment here can provide you some relief.

Telling me my shoes don't match the belt is not hate speech. But instigating people against a whole class (race, religion, ethnicity, etc.), usually suggesting violence or some otherwise harmful methods, is. And it ends up with people hurt, lives and whole communities destroyed. You'd understand a lot better if you were at the receiving end of it. Things are very easy to overlook when they never hit close to home.

But just in case, lmgtfy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech


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Truth and lies are also political weapons. What does this say about them?


Apple Maps provides exactly the same feedback on user corrections. Try it out.


Nice, they must have added that since launch. I tried providing feedback years ago when it was still new and the feedback seemed to go into a black hole.


Indeed, I’m impressed the speed in which Apple maps updates happen and they send notifications when they have made an update based on your feedback.


I started providing more feedback on poor routing, incorrect entrances, etc. precisely because I got feedback my effort was working.


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